The fourth incident of a man being shot in the leg in as many weeks is leaving some residents of a community housing complex that is no stranger to violence wondering where those intent on committing crimes will draw the line.

A man phoned 911 just after 3 p.m. Monday after being shot once in the lower left leg. Witnesses reported driving into the parking lot at the Britannia Woods community housing development on Ritchie Street, hearing one loud bang and finding a man in the parking lot, who pointed to his leg and then said he’d been shot.

Paramedics arrived to transport the man to hospital. His injury is not life-threatening.

“Look how many kids are in this neighbourhood,” one resident, who asked not to be named, said. “It’s broad daylight.”

When asked if she feels safe in the neighbourhood, another replied, “What’s the definition of safe, though?”

With suspected gang members and associates continuing to commit brazen acts of violence in the daytime with several witnesses in the area, residents say not even police or criminal charges are enough to stop them.

The shooting, the city’s 21st of the year, occurred in the 121-block of Ritchie Street, just metres away from where 24-year-old aspiring rapper and known Bloods gang member Malik Adjokatcher was gunned down in May 2013.

Police do not believe that the four shootings involving victims shot in the legs are related to each other.

Monday’s shooting comes on the heels of a similar shooting on Thursday when a man known to police was shot in the legs in a Crips-related shooting in the city’s south end. Police are searching for Mohamed Abdi Abdullahi, 31, in connection to the shooting. Two days later, residents in the area of Horsdal Private, where that shooting took place, continued to be on edge, calling police at the first sound of fireworks at a nearby park and approaching patrol officers who responded to the call to ask for updates on the investigation.

Police on Ritchie Street on Monday were interviewing residents in the area and looking for any physical evidence of the shooting.

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